“Have you almost been struck by lightning? Eleven-year-old Violet Raines has, in more ways than one. And when she’s not dodging lightning or outrunning alligators, she’s trying to keep the prissy new girl from...

The incredible egg is a great source of protein and vitamin D. Great-tasting Horizon Organic® eggs come from cage-free hens that have the freedom to roam. They eat fresh 100% organic vegetarian feed and,...

Guilty Food Pleasures Things I Eat Despite Making Me Sick Food Pleasures Foods I Can't Resist Despite the Consequences It is time for Small Talk Saturday. Woohoo!  I am really having some fun with...

Victoria of Life Starring Ellie and Eve started this weekly series called The Mommy Confessions and I am participating. Anyone can join in. I was a rowdy and wild good Catholic girl growing up....

All Men Are Cremated Equal: MY 77 Blind Dates from Elizabeth Fournier had me hooked from beginning to end. I laughed, I gasped and I often shook my head in amazement. Oh yeah, I...

The day that the Exergen Temporal Scanner arrived in the mail, my husband opened it without even asking me because he know how I am about my freakin' packages. There has not been a day since...

I am ignoring my husband as he tries for about the hundredth time to explain the flaw in the logic of the movie The Terminator. I don't give a crap besides I have heard...

I like the ocean. I never really got to know the ocean until I moved to Hawaii after my sophomore year in high school. I hadn't really been to the ocean much until then....

With my first two children, I waited until they really showed signs of wanting to be potty trained and possibly caring a little more about sitting in a pile of poop for a while...

Crocs are not new. In fact, they have been around since 2002 when they were invented as a non-slip boating shoe. But I noticed the other day at a playgroup that about half of...